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This article is now basically an excuse for a ton of pop-overs and pop-unders that make the site unusable. It seems that the publisher has decided to maximise t

This article is now basically an excuse for a ton of pop-overs and pop-unders that make the site unusable. It seems that the publisher has decided to maximise their revenue from the HN hug. Shame.

Practicality 9y ago
At first, I only saw one ad when I went there (just now). I forgot I had my adblocker on. Then, I tried to load the page again and saw "Haaretz.com is now inaccessible to visitors using ad blockers" Wow, someone is actively working to squeeze the incoming traffic.
- MBCook 9y ago
  Worked fine just now with 1Blocker.
- yuvadam 9y ago
  Haaretz is pretty much the only remaining media outlet in Israel that continues to pursue actual journalism. To that end I support them endlessly. However, they are also the only media outlet that has paywalls, and I'd be fine with that if it ended there - high quality investigative journalism has a price. The problem is that they also have a shit ton of third-party malware networks embedded on their pages, and even if you pay for a digital subscription you still get tracked and bombarded with ads. Then to add further insult, they block ad-blockers. The solution is two fold: the Hebrew EasyList [1] blocks the anti ad-block elements allowing you to continue to view Haaretz without ads and without blocking. Second, if you want to jump over the paywall, there's an addon for that [2]. [1] - https://github.com/easylist/EasyListHebrew https://github.com/easylist/EasyListHebrew [2] - https://github.com/yuvadm/free-haaretz https://github.com/yuvadm/free-haaretz
adam-_- 9y ago
They hijacked the back-button to redirect to a dating site :/
e40 9y ago
Using uMatrix and I see none of that.
MrJagil 9y ago
I recommend Brave browser; at least on mobile.
lobster_johnson 9y ago
Wow. When I tried copying some text from the page to google it, it immediately opened three tabs to some shady spam sites such as entertainment.com-update.today. I am running 1Blocker with Safari, but it didn't catch this.

This article is now basically an excuse for a ton of pop-overs and pop-unders that make the site unusable. It seems that the publisher has decided to maximise their revenue from the HN hug. Shame.

Practicality 9y ago

At first, I only saw one ad when I went there (just now). I forgot I had my adblocker on. Then, I tried to load the page again and saw "Haaretz.com is now inaccessible to visitors using ad blockers" Wow, someone is actively working to squeeze the incoming traffic.

MBCook 9y ago
Worked fine just now with 1Blocker.
yuvadam 9y ago
Haaretz is pretty much the only remaining media outlet in Israel that continues to pursue actual journalism. To that end I support them endlessly. However, they are also the only media outlet that has paywalls, and I'd be fine with that if it ended there - high quality investigative journalism has a price. The problem is that they also have a shit ton of third-party malware networks embedded on their pages, and even if you pay for a digital subscription you still get tracked and bombarded with ads. Then to add further insult, they block ad-blockers. The solution is two fold: the Hebrew EasyList [1] blocks the anti ad-block elements allowing you to continue to view Haaretz without ads and without blocking. Second, if you want to jump over the paywall, there's an addon for that [2]. [1] - https://github.com/easylist/EasyListHebrew https://github.com/easylist/EasyListHebrew [2] - https://github.com/yuvadm/free-haaretz https://github.com/yuvadm/free-haaretz

adam-_- 9y ago

They hijacked the back-button to redirect to a dating site :/

e40 9y ago

Using uMatrix and I see none of that.

MrJagil 9y ago

I recommend Brave browser; at least on mobile.

lobster_johnson 9y ago

Wow. When I tried copying some text from the page to google it, it immediately opened three tabs to some shady spam sites such as entertainment.com-update.today. I am running 1Blocker with Safari, but it didn't catch this.